Hold The Plastic, Please: A Restaurant’s Guide to Reducing Plastic
JULY 2022 | BEYOND PLASTICS
Beyond Plastics has created a thorough, practical, and inspiring guide to help any restaurant that is interested in reducing its use of plastic make key switches and communicate them effectively to existing customers, prospective customers, the media, and the general public. The guide offers practical advice, tools, resources, and case studies of two restaurants who have successfully reduced their use of plastic.
You can download the guide as a PDF in either web or print resolution:
Download the web resolution guide (4.06 MB PDF)
Download the print-resolution guide (11.4 MB PDF)
The guide is also available in Spanish. Haga clic aquí para descargar en Español
The one-page handout on the guide is also available in Spanish. Haga clic aquí para descargar en Español
Read the news release (July 25, 2022)
IMPORTANT: If you find the guide useful, we hope you’ll share it widely. Click here for our toolkit that makes it easy to share the guide via email and social media.📧📲
SHARE THE GUIDE
We’ve put together a simple toolkit to make it easy to spread the word about this handy new guide to help restaurants cut down on plastic in their operations. We’ve included an easy to print one pager you can leave with restaurants, graphics and sample text for sharing the guide on social media, an outreach email, and more.
PRINT OUT THE ONE PAGE HANDOUT
Click here to download our one-page black and white handout to leave behind with any restaurants you visit. Scroll down for the Spanish version.
WASHING FACILITIES
Looking for a dishwashing center your local restaurant can partner with if they lack the capacity to handle washing in-house? Check out Reuse Solutions Network’s map of dish hubs.
QUESTIONS OR IDEAS?
We welcome your feedback. You can contact the guide’s author, Megan directly at: meganwolff2 at bennington dot edu.